Charles Lamb 1755 - 1834
Chronology Of His Essays And Poetry

1798 - The Old Familiar Faces
          Composed At Midnight (written earlier)

1803 - Hester

1807 - Tales From Shakespeare [with Mary Lamb]

1808 - The Adventures Of Ulysses

1811 - On The Tragedies Of Shakespeare [in The Reflector]
          A Bachelor's Complaint On The Behaviour Of Married Couples [in The Reflector]

1818 - Queen Oriana's Dream
          On The Sight Of Swans at Kensington Gardens

1819 - Valentine's Day [in The Examiner]
          On The Acting Of Munden [in The Examiner]
          Work

1820 - September - The South-Sea House
          October - Oxford In The Vacation
          November - Christ's Hospital Five-And-Thirty Years Ago
          December - The Two Races Of Men

1821 - Leisure
          January New Year's Day
          February - Mrs Battle's Opinions On Whist
          March - A Chapter On Ears
          April - All Fools' Day & A Quakers' Meeting
          May - The Old And The New Schoolmaster
          June - My Relations
          July - Mackery End, In Hertfordshire
          August - Imperfect Sympathies
          September - The Old Benchers Of The Inner Temple
          October - Witches And Other Night-Fears
          December - My First Play

1822 - January - Dream-Children; A Reverie
          February - On Some Of The Old Actors
          March - Distant Correspondents
          April - On The Artificial Comedy Of The Last Century
          May - In Praise Of Chimney-Sweepers
          June - A Complaint On The Decay Of Beggars...
          July - Detached Thoughts On Books And Reading
          September - A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig
          November - Modern Gallantry

1823 - "Essays Of Elia" published.
           January - Rejoicings In The New Year's Coming Of Age
           January/February - Barrenness Of Imagination In Modern Art
           March - Old China
           May - Poor Relations
           June - The Child-Angel, A Dream
           July - The Old Margate Hoy
          September - Sonnets Of Sir Philip Sydney
          October - On The Tombs In The Abbey
          December - Amicus Redivivus

1824 - September - Blakesmoor in H---shire
           November - Captain Jackson

1825 - April - Barbara S-----
          May - The Superannuated Man
          June - The Wedding
          July - The Convalescent
          August - Stage Illusion

1826 - January-September - Popular Fallacies [in New Monthly Magazine]
          March - The Genteel Style In Writing[in New Monthly Magazine]
          May - Sanity Of True Genius

1827 - Angel Help
          A Death-Bed [in Hone's Table-Book]

1829 - On An Infant Dying As Soon As Born

1830 - To A Young Friend
          She Is Going

1831 - August - Shades of Elliston & Ellistoniana [both in The Englishman's Magazine]
          October - Newspapers 35 Years Ago

1833 - "The Last Essays Of Elia" published

Essays Of Elia

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